“Jets' QB Joe Flacco said he won't be ready for the regular-season opener after off-season neck surgery:

If you don't understand this super cheap signing, think about what happened when darnold was out last year and how God awful the jets offense was. Flaccos not a superstar, but he has shown he can lead a team to wins sometimes, Falk and whoever else was in there were just awful.

Ha! Got em!

@McL0vinMcLaurin Last year he showed can stink up the joint with the best of them and then got outplayed by a rookie.

And no doubt, I'm not saying he's a stud, but for a pretty low cap hit, he's a pretty real improvement over Falk.

Having a functional backup is a massively important thing to NFL franchises that are gunning for the playoffs. Ask Philly in their Superbowl run, ask the KC chiefs in their Superbowl run (wouldn't have been #1 seed without the wins they got with Moore while Mahomes was out, etc.)

Ask the Steelers as they didn't have one and lost with an otherwise stout team

Guarantee the Steelers would've been better off with flacco as a backup than Mason Rudolph and Duck Hodges. And I guarantee the jets, who went 7-9 but lost every game badly when darnold was gone (4 weeks, right?), would've had a better shot if they had a decent backup.

@UncleRicoJr3rd

Now layer in Covid as something that probably disqualifies players from playing, and backups are more important than ever.

@McL0vinMcLaurin Flacco was 2-6 with only 6 passing TDs and 5 interceptions. Lock went 4-1 with 7 TDs and only 3 interceptions in 5 games. Their QBR ratings and completion % are nearly identical, so, YEAH, with more TDs and less interceptions per game and more wins, Lock > Flacco in 2019.

Sounds good. I'm really not sure why we're comparing flacco and lock, we should be comparing flacco to Falk, as that's the job he just got signed for.

Or Morgan now, I guess

@McL0vinMcLaurin I brought up that Flacco sucks and was outplayed by Lock the rookie. Now, is Flacco an upgrade over Falk? Probably but then you’re just debating levels of suck, like the old South Park “Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich”. The Jets are screwed either but I guess they can hope for the magic Flacco of the playoffs before he signed the big $$$ deal magically reappears.

BTW, Turd Sandwich all the way, and it’s the only answer!

It's an upgrade at a position of need that didn't cost much, seems pretty straightforward. Levels of suck argument or not.

@UncleRicoJr3rd

Agreed he might just be 1 level of suck better than Falk, poor jets fans dint want to see Joe Sucko in a game

I just had neck surgery... on my dick

@UncleRicoJr3rd lol, Flacco is making 1.5 million dollars to hold a clip board next year. That’s if a season is even played this year. The jets don’t plan on Flacco playing a single second this season. But if he does happens to play, He is a much better option than Morgan or Fales. Flacco resigned to a team that plays in his home state coming off neck surgery and announced he won’t be ready for week one. The jets do not expect much out of him. He is most likely contemplating what his future holds at this point.

Choking can actually be a neck injury

But hey, the last time the Jets had a QB named Joe, they won the Super Bowl, so there’s that

@DjPotigrow not a fan of the signing since he’s hurt. Why sign a one year deal on him for a backup spot if he’s not even available to play

What a loser.